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Book SynopsisThe transformation of east Germany since unification has wrought vast changes in the economy and in society and left deep scars as the types of social protection offered by the centralised socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualised life chances. Social Transformation in Eastern Germany investigates the deep economic and social processes which east Germany has undergone, highlighting the restructuring, the social impacts and the stresses of adjustment experienced by key social groups whose workplace and social context has been recast almost out of recognition since 1990.
Table of ContentsThe new East German economy - problems of transition, unification and institutional mismatch, Wendy Carlin; employment, welfare support and income distribution in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the impact of German reunification on the German industrial relations system, Karl Koch; housing situation and housing policy in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the East German family - change and continuity, Mike Dennis; women, work and family in the new Lander - conflicts and experiences, Eva Kolinsky; education transformed? the East German school system since the Wende, Rosalind M.O. Pritchard; political participation of young people in East Germany, Hans Oswald, Christine Schmid; social transformation studies and human rights abuses in East Germany after 1945, Anthony Glees; multiculturalism in the making? non-Germans and civil society in the new Lander, Eva Kolinsky.
